Re: [libreoffice-users] WordPad

Hi :)
This sounds like a bug rather than a deliberate change of direction chosen
by the devs.

However, it could have been just that in order to ensure a completely fresh
rewrite of that functionality.  There has been a long running but extremely
rare set of intermittent bugs which have been extremely hard to replicate
(and thus to figure out how to fix).

One of the only factors they seemed to have in common was that switching
off the auto-save feature seemed to stop the problem from recurring.
Unfortunately switching the auto-save back on never seemed to bring the
problem back so it's been impossible to find the full combination of
factors required to get 1 instance of 1 of the set of bugs to work.  It
also doesn't help that;
1.  the last reported instance of the problem (at least to this mailing
list) was over 2 years ago
2.  it never made any logical sense in the first place and the entire
code-base had been pretty much re-written before the last occurrence

It's a bit like opening a newspaper in the dining room and the porch-light
blows and then finding that someone else opened their newspaper in their
kitchen and their porch-light blew too but that it doesn't happen to anyone
else until a few years later despite many people reading newspapers and
having a porch-light.  So this could be an attempt to replace all
newspapers in case there is some magical and illogical connection between
newspapers and porch-lights!

Each bug in the set has the same result (to us weeus) and that is the loss
of all images in a document!  Quite a big problem on the extremely rare
occasions where one (or more) of the set of bugs occurs but each occurrence
is so rare that even the documentation team don't bother to keep a spare
copy of each image outside their documents "just in case".


So this loss of functionality could be an attempt to deal with a
"high-impact but low likelihood" problem or it could be just a random
event.  Either way it might be good if someone could post a bug-report,
perhaps as a "feature request" ;)

Regards from
Tom :)




On 17 August 2015 at 16:02, Graham Luffrum <grhmlffrm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Same applies to LO 5.0.1.1 for Linux (deb).
>
>
> On 17 August 2015 at 08:59, Piet van Oostrum <piet-l@pietvanoostrum.com>
> wrote:
>
> > jerryg860@earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> >  > Peter,  An automatic periodic save without
> >  > exiting is in LO but you have to set it in the
> >  > options from the
> >  > menu.  Tools>Options>Load/Save>General  Under the
> >  > Save heading you can set the time interval to
> >  > save the recovery information AND THE
> >  > DOCUMENT.  Set the time interval for whatever you
> >  > want and check the box to save the document along
> >  > with the recovery information.
> >
> > LO 5.0, at least on OS X, does not have the option 'Automatically save
> the
> > document too', although it is described in the help documentation.
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> >
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